Acer spicatum Lam.

Tall shrub or clumped small tree to 10 m; winter-buds with 2–4 valvate scales; lvs 3-lobed or obscurely 5-lobed, softly hairy beneath, coarsely and irregularly serrate, the teeth 2–3 per cm, each tipped with a minute sharp gland; fls in fascicles of 2–4 along an erect axis, forming a slender, terminal, long-peduncled panicle 3–8 cm, long-pediceled, the terminal one of each fascicle usually perfect, the others sterile; pet greenish, very narrowly linear-oblanceolate, 3 mm, much exceeding the sep; disk extrastaminal; style barely notched; mericarps 1.8–2.5 cm, conspicuously reticulate over the seed, the wings diverging at about a right angle; 2n=26. Moist woods; Nf. to Sask., s. to Conn., Pa., O. and ne. Io., and in the mts. to N.C. and Tenn. June.

Deep rich moist soils in cool habitats such as the edges of mountain streams, ravines or in woodlands.

Can be grown by cuttings, graftings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.